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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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No man can have society upon his own terms.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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Love is the essence of God.

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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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